Encounter an aesthetic, an artist's universe, a creative process over several consecutive sessions.
FOR PROS DANCERS
Deepen the foundations of bodywork by opening up to work on pulsation, rhythm and metre. The axis as pulsation, the pause as one of the constitutive elements of rhythm; rhythm as a triangle.
Juan Carlos Lérida is a dancer, choreographer and teacher, and is currently programmer of the Tanzhaus Flamenco Festival (Düsseldorf, Germany). He holds degrees in choreography and performance techniques. He was awarded the extraordinary prize of the Barcelona Theatre Institute in 2007. Trained as a child in flamenco, he completed his flamenco training with studies in dramatic art, contemporary dance at the C.A.T. (Seville) and dance-theatre and improvisation in Barcelona. Since 2002, he has taught flamenco, contemporary dance and composition techniques at the Barcelona Theatre Institute, in Europe, Canada and the United States.
FOR PROS DANCERS
The expressiveness of the face, the experience of disorder, bodily celebration, the urgency of existing for the other, the power of subversion, the profusion of words and the intensification of the imaginary are just some of the driving forces behind this WORKSHOP. " I'd like us to make metamorphosis-dances, and to go from cock to donkey - with and without transitions - for a joyful collective movement where we take and leave without fear! " Volmir Cordeiro.
Dance researcher and choreographer Volmir Cordeiro is a leading figure on the contemporary scene. Over the past ten years, he has developed a powerful, colorful and outrageous choreographic language, in the spirit of carnival excess and cheerful transgression. In addition to his career as a performer, researcher and choreographer, Volmir Cordeiro continues to teach at renowned dance schools in France and abroad.
Rigor, humor, virtuosity and playfulness are the pillars of Mourad's work. In the studio, he begins with choreographic research with the group, in the form of directed improvisation. The established choreographic identity is then followed by a period of composition.
After a university career in biology, Mourad Bouayad joined the CNDC in Angers. He then embarked on a career that has seen him work with European and Israeli choreographers such as Dominique Lisette, Laura Scozzi, Hillel Kogan, Ido Feder, Eyal Dadon and Roy Assaf. In 2017, he joined the prestigious Batsheva Ensemble, directed by Ohad Naharin. He is trained in Movement Research called Gaga and became a certified teacher in 2018.
Hofesh Shechter is one of the UK's most exciting contemporary artists. His unique choreographic style, imbued with honesty and raw physicality, has earned Hofesh and his company worldwide acclaim.
Led by long-time Hofesh Shechter dancer Mickael Frappat, this workshop is an opportunity for dance teachers, students and professional dancers to explore the company's signature movement style.
The workshop will include a full warm-up and will use repertoire and imagery from Hofesh's latest critically acclaimed work, Theatre of Dream, to explore his creative process.
Questioning the mechanics of the body and its relationship to the ground is at the heart of Jean-Yves Phuong's work. He explores the physical energies that enable movement to exist, playing with the laws of physics. How the body interacts with the surrounding environment, gravity, but also how the body can generate centrifugal force or inertia. Notions of time, space and sensation will be indistinctly blended, in order to approach a practical and sensitive ground touch.
Jean-Yves Phuong is a dancer and choreographer. His first approach to the body was through dance and the martial arts. His training and early experiences with companies were founded on the worlds and practices of classical, contemporary and hip hop dance. He has worked with Marco CANTALUPO and Kartazyna GDANIEC, Maud le PLADEC, Raphaelle BOITEL, Sylvère LAMOTTE, Yoann BOURGEOIS and, more recently, Olivier DUBOIS. His career as a performer has led him to question gesture, the body in movement and its mechanics, as well as the body's interactions with its surroundings from the perspective of different performing arts.
